US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 5 for "Method and device for coding/decoding image using intra prediction" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,096, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for coding/decoding image using intra prediction" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for encoding/decoding an image according to the present invention may determine a reference region for intra prediction of a current block, derive an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of a predetermined MPM candidate group, and perform intra prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference region and the intra prediction mode."

The p...